BBC Radio 4 LW

America Rewritten Podcast

America Rewritten

America Rewritten: Ariel Levy

Documentaries

Factual

Factual: Politics

Ariel Levy

19/01/2017

BBC Radio 4 - America Rewritten, Ariel Levy

Ariel Levy discusses her role as writer under a new president who distrusts the media.

Feminist New Yorker writer Ariel Levy expresses talks to Robert McCrum about her views on the president elect and what he will mean for America.

In the week of the Presidential inauguration Robert McCrum talks to great writers about making the transition from Obama to Trump. In a series of wide-ranging interviews he asks Marilynne Robinson, Richard Ford, Malcolm Gladwell and others how they will write about the New America. Today it's the turn of the feminist New Yorker writer Ariel Levy to discuss how she will respond as a writer to the new President.

Producer: Maggie Ayre.

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Robert McCrum talks to six writers about the transition from Obama to Trump.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

America Rewritten

Ariel Levy

Genres

Formats

Series

BBC Radio 4 LW

About BBC Radio 4